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Outnumbered wrote:This sounded EXACTLY like a story from last New Year's. Checked the date... 2015.

ScottDLS wrote:

Vol Texan wrote:I hope they find the idiot who did this:

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/ho ... =fb-pemium

Just a few moments into the New Year, Javier Sruarez Rivera stood in his driveway with his wife to watch fireworks burst in the night sky, listening to their pops mingled with the sounds of unseen neighbors shooting guns into the air.

As he looked up, a bullet came down.

Rivera collapsed, falling backward onto the concrete, blood pouring from a wound to his head. Inside his house, 18 family members, who had been sharing midnight hugs and handshakes, heard his wife's screams for someone to call 911.

This is really tragic, but I believe some further investigation is warranted. I believe in most cases terminal velocity for a falling object is about 120 fps or 154 mph. A roughly straight up until it falls back bullet would have lost it's spin and lateral velocity (if any). I guess if it hit you in the eye...or soft tissue of the neck... I highly suspect "defilade" fire. In other words more lateral from a higher vertical location...or maybe even someone with evil intent shooting while covered by celebratory fireworks.

There was an incident at a theme park near Charlotte, NC (Carowinds) in the '80's where a girl was killed while in the swimming pool. It was by someone shooting an AK-47 at around 45 degrees from vertical near the park. The State couldn't prove who actually fired the shot so they couldn't bring a manslaughter case, but it turns out that the AK-47 was illegally converted to full-auto so the Feds prosecuted the owner for manufacture/possession of an unregistered machine gun. That came with a 10 year sentence.

Just a few moments into the New Year, Javier Suarez Rivera stood in his driveway with his wife to watch fireworks burst in the night sky, listening to their pops mingled with the sounds of unseen neighbors shooting guns into the air.

As he looked up, a bullet came down.

Rivera collapsed, falling backward onto the concrete, blood pouring from a wound to his head. Inside his house, 18 family members, who had been sharing midnight hugs and handshakes, heard his wife's screams for someone to call 911.